Before COVID-19, cancer patients were united by their fight against the disease, no matter the difference in type, location or stage. Today, they’re united by another battle; one outside of their diagnosis — the fight to stay alive while immunosuppressed during a global pandemic.
The UF Health Cancer Center’s Community Outreach and Engagement office facilitated two live webinars on cancer and COVID-19 that reached almost 650 people. Cancer in the Time of Coronavirus, a webinar with Chris Cogle, M.D., and Amar Kelkar, M.D., was hosted…
Stay-at-home restrictions are beginning to lift in several areas across the United States, but immunosuppressed cancer patients are still at high risk of falling seriously ill from the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
A new research program to understand the effect of COVID-19 on health care workers is soon to be underway at University of Florida Health and other sites across the country. A clinical trial to evaluate whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19 infections is also being planned.
Cancer doesn’t stop — not even for the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. The unknowns related to the virus are leaving people concerned, especially cancer patients who may have weakened immune systems as a result of cancer treatment and/or may be older.
About: The AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I will begin with an Opening Session in which AACR President Elaine R. Mardis will review the AACR’s accomplishments for the past year and Program Chair Antoni Ribas will review the meeting program. The virtual Meeting will feature a variety of sessions, which will run from 9 a.m.– 6 p.m. EDT…
On April 15, the Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative (NCFCCC), and UF Health Cancer Center held Cancer Connections via Zoom. In this webinar, speaker Merry Jennifer Markham, M.D., FACP, discussed how to navigate cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On April 3, the Florida Cancer Control and Research Advisory Council (CCRAB), North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative (NCFCCC), and UF Health Cancer Center hosted Cancer in the Time of Coronavirus webinar on Zoom. In this webinar, speakers Christopher Cogle, M.D., and Amar Kelkar, M.D.,…
